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Ourense, the Glossary

Ourense (Orense) is a city and the capital of the province of Ourense, located in the autonomous community of Galicia, northwestern Spain.^[1]

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Adolfo Domínguez

Adolfo Domínguez Fernández (born on 14 May 1950) is a Spanish fashion designer.

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Alcalde

Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions.

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Alfonso III of Asturias

Alfonso III (20 December 910), called the Great (el Magno), was the king of León, Galicia and Asturias from 866 until his death.

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Abu ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abi ʿĀmir al-Maʿafiri (أبو عامر محمد بن عبد الله بن أبي عامر المعافري), nicknamed al-Manṣūr (المنصور, "the Victorious"), which is often Latinized as Almanzor in Spanish, Almansor in Catalan and Almançor in Portuguese (c.

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Antonia Ferrín Moreiras

Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (Ourense, 13 May 1914 – Santiago de Compostela, 6 August 2009) was a mathematician, professor and the first female Galician astronomer.

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As Burgas

As Burgas are hot springs in the historic center of Ourense, in Galicia, Spain.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Auria

Auria—also known as Oria—was an early consort of Pamplona.

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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma) is the first sub-national level of political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.

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Barallete

Barallete is a largely vanished argot which used to be employed by the traditional knife-sharpeners and umbrella-repairers (afiadores e paragüeiros) of the Galician province of Ourense, in Spain.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana,; O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St.

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Camino de Santiago (route descriptions)

The Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of St.

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Cant (language)

A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group.

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Castanea sativa

Castanea sativa, the sweet chestnut, Spanish chestnut or just chestnut, is a species of tree in the family Fagaceae, native to Southern Europe and Asia Minor, and widely cultivated throughout the temperate world.

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CD Ourense

Club Deportivo Ourense, S.A.D. was a Spanish football team based in Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Citizens (Spanish political party)

Citizens (Ciudadanos; Ciutadans; shortened as Cs—C's until January 2017), officially Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Ciudadanos–Partido de la Ciudadanía), is a liberal political party in Spain.

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Clara Corral Aller

Clara Corral Aller (Ourense, 8 June 1847 - A Coruña, 9 February 1908) was a Galician poet, the second woman to publish a text in Galician language during the 19th century, after Rosalía de Castro.

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Comarcas of Galicia

Galicia is divided into comarcas.

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Communist Party of Galicia

The Communist Party of Galicia (Partido Comunista de Galicia, PCG), is the affiliate of the Communist Party of Spain in Galicia.

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Construction

Construction is a general term meaning the art and science of forming objects, systems, or organizations.

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Country

A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.

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Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)

Democratic and Social Centre (Centro Democrático y Social, CDS) was a liberal political party in Spain, founded in 1982 by former Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez.

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Eduardo Blanco Amor

Eduardo Modesto Blanco Amor (September 14, 1897 in Ourense – December 1, 1979 in Vigo) was a Galician writer and journalist who wrote in Galician and in Spanish.

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En Marea

En Marea (translated in English as "In Tide") was a political party and former political alliance integrated by Podemos, Anova, United Left of Galicia, and some municipal alliances that participated in the 2015 Spanish local elections (Marea Atlántica, Compostela Aberta, and Ferrol en Común).

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Expulsion of Jews from Spain

The Expulsion of Jews from Spain was the expulsion of practicing Jews following the Alhambra Decree in 1492, which was enacted to eliminate their influence on Spain's large converso population and to ensure its members did not revert to Judaism.

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Filomena Dato

Filomena Dato Muruais (1856 – 1 May 1926) was a Galician feminist and writer in Castilian Spanish and the Galician language.

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Galicia (Spain)

Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.

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Galician Coalition

Galician Coalition (Galician: Coalición Galega, CG) is a political party in Galicia, Spain with a Galician nationalist and centrist ideology.

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Galician language

Galician (galego), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.

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Galician National-Popular Bloc

The Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG or BN-PG, Bloque Nacional-Popular Galego in Galician language) was a Galician electoral candidacy.

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Galician Nationalist Bloc

The Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego, BNG) is a political party from Galicia, formed with the merger of a series of left-wing Galician nationalist parties.

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Galician Progressive Coalition

Galician Progressive Coalition (Galician: Coalición Progresista Galega, CPG) was a centre-right Galician political coalition formed for the municipal elections of 1987.

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Gonzalo Pérez Jácome

Gonzalo Pérez Jácome (born 2 August 1969) is a Spanish politician who is the founder and leader of the party Ourensan Democracy (DO).

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Hot spring

A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.

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ISO 3166-2:ES

ISO 3166-2:ES is the entry for Spain in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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James the Great

James the Great (Koinē Greek: Ἰάκωβος, romanized: Iákōbos; Aramaic: ܝܥܩܘܒ, romanized: Yaʿqōḇ; died AD 44) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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José Luis Abadín

José Luis Abadín Iglesias (born 13 March 1986 in Ourense) is a Spanish racing driver who competed in the FIA Formula Two Championship.

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Julio Iglesias Puga

Julio Iglesias Puga (25 July 1915 – 19 December 2005) was a Spanish gynecologist.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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La Región

is a daily newspaper in the city and province of Ourense, in the Southeastern part of Galicia, an autonomous community (region) of Spain.

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Mayor–council government

A mayor–council government is a system of local government in which a mayor who is directly elected by the voters acts as chief executive, while a separately elected city council constitutes the legislative body.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).

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Minho (river)

The Minho or Miño (Miniu) is the longest river in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain, with a length of.

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Moors

The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Municipalities of Spain

The municipality (municipio,, municipi, concello, udalerria, conceyu)In other languages of Spain.

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Oak

An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.

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Ourensan Democracy

Ourensan Democracy (Democracia Ourensana, DO) is a political party active in the Province of Ourense, mainly in the Comarca of Ourense.

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Ourense (comarca)

Ourense is a comarca in the Galician Province of Ourense.

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Ourense Cathedral

The Ourense Cathedral (Catedral de Ourense or Catedral do San Martiño) is a Roman Catholic church located in Ourense in Galicia.

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Ourense CF

Ourense CF is a Galician football club from the city of Ourense.

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Ourense-Empalme railway station

Ourense-Empalme Railway Station is the main railway station of Ourense, Spain.

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Parroquia

(pl.;, pl. parroquies) or Parròquia (pl. parròquies) is a term equivalent to the English Parish; used in Andorra, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and some parts of northwestern Spain.

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People's Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance (Alianza Popular, AP) was a post-Francoist electoral coalition, and later a conservative political party in Spain, founded in 1976 as a federation of political associations.

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People's Party (Spain)

The People's Party (Partido Popular; known mostly by its acronym, PP) is a conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Spain.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Plaza de la Revolución

Plaza de la Revolución, "Revolution Square", is a municipality (or borough) and a square in Havana, Cuba.

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Ponte Vella

Ponte Vella (Galician, "old bridge", Ponte Romana (Roman bridge), Ponte Maior (great bridge)) is a medieval footbridge built on Roman foundations in Ourense, Spain.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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Portuguese Way

The Portuguese Way (Caminho Português, Camino Portugués) is the name of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage routes starting in Portugal.

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Province of Ourense

Ourense (Orense) is a province of Spain, in the southeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Provinces of Spain

A province in Spain.

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Quimper

Quimper (Kemper; Civitas Aquilonia or Corisopitum) is a commune and prefecture of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France.

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Roberto Verino

Roberto Verino (born Manuel Roberto Mariño in 1945) is a Spanish fashion designer.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Romanians

Romanians (români,; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a common culture and ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2021 Romanian census found that 89.3% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians.

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San Cibrao das Viñas

San Cibrao das Viñas is a municipality in the province of Ourense, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. Ourense and San Cibrao das Viñas are municipalities in the Province of Ourense.

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Sancho II of Castile and León

Sancho II (1036/1038 – 7 October 1072), called the Strong (el Fuerte), was King of Castile (1065–72), Galicia (1071–72) and León (1072).

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Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

The Santiago de Compostela Arch cathedral Basilica (Spanish and Galician: Catedral Basílica de Santiago de Compostela) is part of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela and is an integral component of the Santiago de Compostela World Heritage Site in Galicia, Spain.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. Ourense and Seville are roman sites in Spain.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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The Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE; Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia, Partido de los Socialistas de Galicia) is a centre-left political party in Galicia, Spain.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourense

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